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Unmodified WordPress core files flagged as unknown

Scanner flags unmodified WordPress core files like wp-admin and wp-includes as unknown or modified.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

7 public reports · first reported 21 November 2018 · last reported 3 June 2024

Idea report · $9 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Site owners running this WordPress malware scanner report that it marks standard WordPress core files as unknown or modified, even when the files match the official download.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 7 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.